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Page 2} THE POLEMIC April, 1974 His Way - Parables From Life The Foolish Robin 1 know a foolish robin. \ For three days now we have watched | im. He doesn’t look any different than | the dozens of robins there are in our neighborhood. | don’t know what makes | this robin so senseless, but he,is the worst! Well, we park our car out in the drive- way behind the yard. 1! had it washed last week and the chrome bumper is very clean, bright and shiny. H Our little robin was happily engaged in its vocation of discovering the hiding place of worms. It made a little run and then stopped and cocked its head in amazement and dismay. It saw its own image reflected in the chrome bumper. “Humph”, said the robin, “a poacher. Trying to muscle in on my territory, eh? Well, I'll fix you!” And it threw itself furously against the bumper. Time after time it leaped up: and fought against its own reflection., When it finally became exhausted, it flew| up and lit on the bumper. It sat there and! “ pecked at its own image until | am sure its beak was aching. Continued in next column..... sSTAFF BOX......000 Editor . June Hinkley Assistant tednen Sandy Mahar & Valinda Glomski Photographer . ._ Anne Swan Business Manager. . Kim Coggins Page Editors . Steve Blixt Harry Gross! Paul Gunderson’ Advertising Manager . Kim Coggins Copy Editor Kelly Treece Dennis Grenkowicz . Paul Gunderson Scott Olmstead \ Mike Mack Mark Forrest \ Debbie Anderson Sherry Morrish Flora Lahman Jim Peasley *» John Sliss Lillian McMindes Circulation Manager . Technical Editor . Reporters The Polemic is a monthly newspaper: published by and for the students of Alpena Community College. Anyone who has any information or stories that would’ be of interest to the rest of the college pledse give them to June Hinkley, Kelly Treece, or drop them in the box for copy | in Van Lare Hall or Besser ed Center. | SPENS- PHARMACY] 201 N. Second Ave. Prescription Cosmetics 8 Cameras——Film OPEN EVENINGS (313) 884-7777 Detroi s, Inc At last, in disgust it flew away* Youd think it would have learned its lesson. But each morning for three days now, the foolish robin has returned and renewed its onslaught against its own image in the. bumper. : 1 don’t know what is going to happen to that robin. But | do know that if it keeps this up, it will die, for the laws of physics declare that if robins beat their flesh against chrome bumpers long enough they will die. But robins are not the only foolish. persons, In us there is a self that is.sinful, And our good self has declared war against. our bad self. So we knock ourselves out trying to be good -- trying to mold our own morality, f trying to win the war against’ the other | self. But everytime, we fall back in defeat. | { St. Paul felt this and he said, “I do not ; understand my own actions, for | do not‘ do what | want, but | do the very thing | hate ... and writched man that | am, who. will alder me from this body of death?” But Paul knew something the foolish robin could never know and he ended by” Pee answering his own question: ‘Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ!’ A lot of human robins are beating themselves to death against the chrome bumpers of the bad self these days. The only solution is to drive the car away .... And | know Someone who can do it! EELLELLLELLLLELELELELELE Mr. Joseph Evans, Guest Lecturer By Lillian McMinde Joseph Evans, Chairman of the Piano Department|at Michigan State University, is known throughout the United States and Europe as a soloist, chamber music performer, artist-teacher, and lecturer. Beginning his early musical training in Cleveland Ohio, where his father was cellist in the Cleveland Symphony, Mr. Evans continued his studies in Michigan, followed by work in New York City with! the Viennese master, Eduard Steuermann,’ professor at the Juilliard School of Music. European studies include diplomas in Piano and chamber music from the Paris Conservatory, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the Conservatories at Fon- tainebleau, France, and Lucerne, Switzer- land. “He has also done research in musicology at the University of Vienna. i Evans is a past president of the Michigan Music Teachers Association and) was selected as the outstanding teacher in! Michigan. In 1969 he won the Mason and. Hamlin Award for piano teaching which was presented by the National Music Teachers Association. Black is Beautiful By Kelly Treece We all stumble to biology class - - - it’s a chore because it’s so early and so cold and everyone is half asleep. But not to biology lab, no not to lab because it’s fun. The instructor makes it just like “AM In \The Family” with him presiding as Archie Bunker. It started off innocently, | suppose, when we were studying blood cells, with unmasked curiosity, Archie asked the only Black girl in class if ae has sickle cell anemia. Did we realize that she was the only Black person in class? No. Everyone was so intrigued by the class that we didn’t have time to sort out different ethnic groups. And was it funny? By no means. Quite shocking to be truthful. And of course, we progressed daily We. _ were when Archie asked aa TRE girl if she were mulatto. “You kind of look mul- atto,” he said. Sorry but the Black girl didn‘t even know what the hell a mulatto was. But, Archie wasn’t through. He then concluded by saying “'! hate to scare you ,kids,| but everyone in here probably has some NEGRO blood in you.” Did we all storm out in disgust? No, everyone was so astounded that we coundn’t\ walk. And the Black girl was slowly rnin under the desk in embarassment. So now, beings we are all aware that there is a NEGRO girl in our class we don’t come to '‘class| feeling so carefree. We come (well, a few of us) very tense and apprehensive that stupid Archie will put his foot in his mouth again. _ ‘ And we were right. Just this week Arch was talking about the copper basin and asked the 2 Black people in class (excluding.everyone, else) if they had ever been to Georgia. And he seemed rela- tively surprised that neither of them had been down south. Tell me Mr. Polaski, have you ever been to Poland? and you Ms. Reibling, have you ever been to Germany? | can’t wait until we talk about the Rain Forest. Tell me Ms. BLACK, have you ever'been to Africa? “Those were the Days..,. .”” Jeanne Nowaczewski Children’s Lit. Class'Hosts Student From A.H.S. By June Hinkley On Wednesday, February 6th, Mrs. Maxine Coomb’s P.E. Children’s Litera- ture class was fortunate enough to have Miss Jeanne Nowaczewski as a guest speaker. Jeanne is a student at Alpena High School in her senior year. She is 17 years old, and Forensics, and theater. Most of her|class- es this year at A.H.S. are English and History classes. Within Mrs. Coomb’s class, students have been studying different types of children’s books, and will be expected to eventually write a children’s book. Jeanne was invited because she has written three children’s books entitled, Giddy and the Grapes, The Herd of Birds, and Sense and Nonsense (a collection of rhymes). While being a guest speaker for the class, she ‘read each of her three books and then a ; discussion of each one was opened within the classroom. A Biology project was the root from which these three books came about. Jeanne was in an independent study course with Mr. Cardwell at A.H.S., and for her special project, she received permission to write the'three books. _ Jeanne illustrated her own books also, although she had never received any for- mal art education beyond grade school. Mrs. Coombs said she invited Jeanne because she wanted to show her students that it can be done.” Jeanne is hoping to attend Northern Michigan University, after graduation, but she is not sure that writing children’s books is her chosen future goal. low- ever, she is in the process of scratching out another book and who knows where that may take her! IF YOU TELL A man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him bench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure. 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